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  • Kosovo
    Tuesday Jan 1, 1974
    Kosovo War

    Kosovo was declared a Province

    Kosovo
    Tuesday Jan 1, 1974

    In 1974 Kosovo's political status improved further when a new Yugoslav constitution granted an expanded set of political rights. Along with Vojvodina, Kosovo was declared a province and gained many of the powers of a fully-fledged republic: a seat on the federal presidency and its own assembly, police force and national bank.




  • South Vietnam
    Friday Jan 4, 1974
    Vietnam War

    President Thieu announced that the war had restarted

    South Vietnam
    Friday Jan 4, 1974

    After two clashes that left 55 South Vietnamese soldiers dead, President Thieu announced on 4 January 1974, that the war had restarted and that the Paris Peace Accord was no longer in effect. This was despite there being over 25,000 South Vietnamese casualties during the ceasefire period.




  • California, U.S.
    Jan, 1974
    Ted Bundy

    Ted abruptly broke off all contact

    California, U.S.
    Jan, 1974

    In January 1974, however, Ted abruptly broke off all contact. Her phone calls and letters went unreturned. Finally reaching him by phone a month later, Brooks demanded to know why Bundy had unilaterally ended their relationship without explanation. In a flat, calm voice, he replied, "Stephanie, I have no idea what you mean" and hung up. She never heard from him again. He later explained, "I just wanted to prove to myself that I could have married her". Brooks concluded in retrospect that he had deliberately planned the entire courtship and rejection in advance as vengeance for the breakup she initiated in 1968.




  • Washington, U.S.
    Friday Jan 4, 1974
    Ted Bundy

    Karen Sparks

    Washington, U.S.
    Friday Jan 4, 1974

    Shortly after midnight on January 4, 1974 (around the time that he terminated his relationship with Brooks), Bundy entered the basement apartment of 18-year-old Karen Sparks (identified as Joni Lenz, Mary Adams, and Terri Caldwell by various sources), a dancer and student at UW. After bludgeoning Sparks senseless with a metal rod from her bed frame, he sexually assaulted her with either the same rod, or a metal speculum, causing extensive internal injuries. She remained unconscious for 10 days, but survived with permanent physical and mental disabilities.




  • U.S.
    Sunday Jan 6, 1974
    1973 oil crisis

    Year-round daylight saving time was implemented

    U.S.
    Sunday Jan 6, 1974

    Year-round daylight saving time was implemented from January 6, 1974, to October 27, 1975, with a break between October 27, 1974, and February 23, 1975, when the country observed standard time. Parents complained loudly that it forced many children to travel to school before sunrise. The prior rules were restored in 1976.




  • Vienna, Austria
    Monday Jan 7, 1974
    1973 oil crisis

    OPEC decides to freeze prices until April 1

    Vienna, Austria
    Monday Jan 7, 1974

    OPEC decides to freeze prices until April 1.




  • Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.
    Tuesday Jan 22, 1974
    Nike, Inc.

    Registering The Swoosh With The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

    Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.
    Tuesday Jan 22, 1974

    The Swoosh was registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on January 22, 1974.


  • New York, U.S.
    Monday Jan 28, 1974
    Muhammad Ali Clay

    Super Fight II

    New York, U.S.
    Monday Jan 28, 1974

    The second of the three Ali–Frazier bouts, it took place at Madison Square Garden in New York City on January 28, 1974. Ali won in 12 rounds.


  • Kuwait
    Tuesday Jan 29, 1974
    1973 oil crisis

    Kuwait announces 60 percent government participation in BP-Gulf concession

    Kuwait
    Tuesday Jan 29, 1974

    Kuwait announces 60 percent government participation in BP-Gulf concession; Qatar follows on February 20.


  • Nigeria
    Thursday Jan 31, 1974
    Magdi Yacoub

    Performing The First Open Heart Surgery in Nigeria

    Nigeria
    Thursday Jan 31, 1974

    As a visiting professor to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Yacoub, Fabian Udekwu, C. H Anyanwu, FRCS and others performed the first open heart surgery in Nigeria in 1974.


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